Golden Spike Set Colt Revolver and Win. Carbine
I am hoping to get some advice. I just inherited a Winchester 94 Golden spike and a Colt SA Frontier Scout 22 Golden spike with matching serial numbers. What are they worth? Both are unfired in the original box and appear to be in like new condition. I don't like safe queens and if the best I can hope for is $300-$500 apiece I might as well take them out and enjoy them.
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I can't find the set listed in a older Blue Book. Although they have the individual commemoratives listed in the Colt and Winchester sections. NIB, together $1,200 in a 4 year old Blue Book. I wouldn't be shooting them, until I got the skinny on the boxed set. Might turn out to be be quite valuable?
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Unless you can substantiate they were actually sold as a set, and cataloged by Winchester. I wouldn't sell them as a set. Just because they are cased together now, means nothing. Other than a previous owner might have did it. If they weren't cataloged, sold together from Winchester? Might sell quicker individually. As long as you have all the original boxes, documentation, accessories etc.0 -
I'd guess 1500 for the pair perhaps more. 0 -
Are you saying that they both fit in one box, or each is in it's own box? That would make a difference.
You need to describe the accessories & their condition: cardboard sleeve, label, instruction books, warranty cards, etc.
Wearing your white cotton gloves, you need to examine the guns closely for any sign of wear, handling or corrosion. The finish on these is quite delicate, & few are found absolutely mint, showing no signs of peeling, flaking, corrosion, or handling. Just working the action a few times is enough to degrade the level of perfection that a collector is looking for.
Neal
EDIT: If $1,200 is the least that you would take for the pair, I suggest that you list it with a starting price of $1,200. (Many folks exclude reserve auctions from their search.)
I rcommend that you list with better photos than you gave us.0 -
According to the 34th edition of The Blue Book, the Golden Spike rifle (actually a carbine) in 100% condition is worth $700. They mention rifle and Colt SAA sets, not the Golden Spike specifically, and in 44-40, nothing about 22lr. Anyway, they are listed as being worth $3000 as a set, in 100% condition. New cost was $3,700.
Years ago, my gunsmith neighbor bought a commemorative 94 in 38-55 and gave it to one of his adult sons. The son shot it and hunted with it, after time the rifle had issues. My neighbor took it apart, replaced the elevator and several other internal parts with original Winchester parts, his son is still hunting with that rifle.
The neighbor told me that all of the internal parts where very cheap in the commemorative rifles, that Winchester didn't figure on them being shot, so they put all of the money into the appearance, not the function.
As far as firearm investments go, Winchester commemoratives are about at the bottom of the heap.
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I did some more research on this, I still can not find a Winchester issued Golden Spike with a 22 Colt single action. In the 12th edition of the Gun Traders guide published in 1986, it list a Winchester Model 94 Colt Commemorative Set, carbine and revolver in 44-40. Price is listed as $2,900.
As I said in the previous post, the 34th edition of the Blue Book values a 100% set for $3000.
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As an owner of Colt Comm's I know that they are a hard sell. I am in the process of selling off some of mine at local guns shows and the market is really thin. I just sold a low serial number Gen Meade .45 to a collector (after a long wait) and I made less dough on it that what I was offered 15 years ago! If you want to sell them you will have to price them right. If you take them out and fire them you will not sell them to a collector as that destroys the value. It seems that Comm's are at the bottom of the collector barrel, sad to say. Anyway, good luck! 0 -
Everybody, thanks for the information. From what I have researched they were a 1969 issue. The Winchester 94 has a serial number of GS7645 and the Colt Frontier Scout has 7645GS. I may just go ahead and list them with a $1200 reserve and see what happens.
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